Musical
birthdays today include Jackson Family manager Joe Jackson (87), Darlene
Love (78), R&B singer Brenton Wood (75), Mick Jagger (73), funk
singer Betty Davis (71), Queen drummer Roger Taylor (67), classical
guitarist Robert Phillips (63), Extreme lead singer Gary Cherone (55),
Swing Out Sister co-founder Gary Connell (53), Joan as Police Woman [née Joan Wasser](46), pianist Derek Paravicini (37), and ex-Sum 41 lead guitarist Dave Baksh (36).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for pianist and composer John Field, born on this day in 1782... for composer & conductor Serge Koussevitzky [long-time maestro of the Boston Symphony, and founder of the Tanglewood Festival], born in 1874... for trumpeter & bandleader Erskine Hawkins, born in 1914... for Mary Wells, who died on this date in 1992... and for JJ Cale, who left us three years ago today.
Also on July 26th: Parsifal, Wagner's final completed opera, premieres at Bayreuth (1882)... The Who make their London debut at the White Hart Hotel, Acton (1964)... The Jackson Five sign their first recording contract, a one-year deal with Motown. They will make history in 1970 as the first recording act to have their first four singles reach № 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1968)... Jimi Hendrix plays his last concert in his hometown of Seattle when he and the Band of Gypsys headline a show at Sicks Stadium (1970)... Graffiti artists are hired to spray paint sites in London with the words 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll' to promote the UK release of The Rolling Stones' new single (1974)... The Eagles have their first US № 1 album with One of These Nights. The singles chart is led by one-hit wonders Van McCoy & the Soul City with 'The Hustle' (1975)... Elvis Costello is arrested as he performs outside a CBS Records sales conference at the London Hilton Hotel and is fined £5 for disturbing the peace (1977)... Two years after its appearance in Britain, a substantially revamped version of The Clash's eponymous debut album is released in the US (1979)... Peter Gabriel goes to № 1 on the US singles chart with 'Sledgehammer'. The song will receive three Grammy nominations, and as of 2013 is the most played video in the history of MTV (1986)... Newspapers in the UK report that eight people who attended this year's Glastonbury Festival have been admitted to hospital after contracting the E-Coli bug which claimed the lives of 22 people in Scotland earlier in the year (1997)... The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sells for £330,000 at an auction at Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band The Quarrymen in 1957... The final edition of Top of the Pops is recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public are in the audience for the show, which is co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham!, Madonna, Beyoncé and Robbie Williams feature in the show alongside the Rolling Stones, who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964 (2006)... AC/DC singer Brian Johnson appears as the 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' on the BBC television programme Top Gear. His time of 1:45.9 ties him with Simon Cowell for the second fastest time. He was introduced by host Jeremy Clarkson with the words "...a man who has sold more albums than The Beatles, and I'll bet almost no one in the audience has ever heard of him" (2011).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for pianist and composer John Field, born on this day in 1782... for composer & conductor Serge Koussevitzky [long-time maestro of the Boston Symphony, and founder of the Tanglewood Festival], born in 1874... for trumpeter & bandleader Erskine Hawkins, born in 1914... for Mary Wells, who died on this date in 1992... and for JJ Cale, who left us three years ago today.
Also on July 26th: Parsifal, Wagner's final completed opera, premieres at Bayreuth (1882)... The Who make their London debut at the White Hart Hotel, Acton (1964)... The Jackson Five sign their first recording contract, a one-year deal with Motown. They will make history in 1970 as the first recording act to have their first four singles reach № 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1968)... Jimi Hendrix plays his last concert in his hometown of Seattle when he and the Band of Gypsys headline a show at Sicks Stadium (1970)... Graffiti artists are hired to spray paint sites in London with the words 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll' to promote the UK release of The Rolling Stones' new single (1974)... The Eagles have their first US № 1 album with One of These Nights. The singles chart is led by one-hit wonders Van McCoy & the Soul City with 'The Hustle' (1975)... Elvis Costello is arrested as he performs outside a CBS Records sales conference at the London Hilton Hotel and is fined £5 for disturbing the peace (1977)... Two years after its appearance in Britain, a substantially revamped version of The Clash's eponymous debut album is released in the US (1979)... Peter Gabriel goes to № 1 on the US singles chart with 'Sledgehammer'. The song will receive three Grammy nominations, and as of 2013 is the most played video in the history of MTV (1986)... Newspapers in the UK report that eight people who attended this year's Glastonbury Festival have been admitted to hospital after contracting the E-Coli bug which claimed the lives of 22 people in Scotland earlier in the year (1997)... The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sells for £330,000 at an auction at Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band The Quarrymen in 1957... The final edition of Top of the Pops is recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public are in the audience for the show, which is co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham!, Madonna, Beyoncé and Robbie Williams feature in the show alongside the Rolling Stones, who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964 (2006)... AC/DC singer Brian Johnson appears as the 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' on the BBC television programme Top Gear. His time of 1:45.9 ties him with Simon Cowell for the second fastest time. He was introduced by host Jeremy Clarkson with the words "...a man who has sold more albums than The Beatles, and I'll bet almost no one in the audience has ever heard of him" (2011).
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